Question How do I interpret this?

[Staiduk]

Hello friends.

Last night I did a very foolhardy and self-important thing. I was on Youtube and decided to type my own screen-name into the search engine to see what came up.

Please understand that I have little understanding of the Internet or how Search features function.

I have 11 videos on Youtube; none are noteworthy in any way. I expected that they would come up and nothing else. To my surprise dozens of hits were received; and all surrounding one video.

This video has been copied dozens of times; into collections of jo and aikido techniques. To date I have over 13000 hits on this video and I'm stymied as to why.
It's not good in any way. I remember the night quite clearly. It was the second-last class I ever taught in my old dojo; K-W Ki Aikido. It was a staff (Jo) class, and after most staff classes we (the students) got together to play with the concepts we'd learned that day. Granted as junior instructor I generally took control of the after-hours play and acted as Nage for most of our experiments but there is nothing unique here in any way. So why five years after I posted this video does it seem to have so much popularity?

I don't get it.

Or perhaps I'm wrong and 13,000 hits and dozens of copies are nothing on Youtube - more likely the case.

Your opinion? As an Internet idiot I'd really appreciare your view.

 

[Urwumpe]

Well, how google (which stands behind youtube) searches for videos is pretty secret and also pretty strange, at least what can be told by observing this blackbox. It also seems to deliver related videos with similar content or videos watched by the same people who watched your video.

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I justed tested it myself (no videos uploaded at all). It also returns videos I commented to.

But the first hit was this screen capture of some guy who vandalized OrbiterWiki and who was stupid enough to make this video at such a high quality, that I was able to read his IP address.

But it also had its good things:

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls.

Now I am mostly unemployed as bureaucrat, the automatic spam fighting works great.

 

[statickid]

IMHO 13k in 5 years is notable, but definitely not viral. :shrug: it was a cool video, if anything it reminds me of a definition. If I wanted to know what aikido was and typed in the word, I'd be more satisfied than looking up a word definition or picture. Its extremely didactic in nature. That's how I would look at it. Maybe someone found it and uses it as an example in a school somewhere.

 

[Staiduk]

Thanks. I was just curious, really; especially about it apparently being used in several collections. (Shrug) I videod a lot of my classes and techniques in the full-speed/slow mo format there so that I could identify my mistakes and study refinements. Never thought anyone'd actually be interested - I just posted it as a farewell to my old club. Too bad there was a copyright issue regarding the music; forcing me to mute it - live and learn.